I have a problem with my USB mass storage devices which I can't find a solution for on the forum(s). I will try to be as detailled as possible.

Problem description:If I try to copy files to a USB storage device it just seems to stop copying (the progress indicator of Nautilus just stops and sits and waits forever). This happens with all USB sticks (thumbdrives) and on all USB ports (USB 2.0 and USB 3.0)

Actions taken:Searched this forum and "ẗhe other one" (ubuntu) but did not find a solutionChanged grub settings to "pci=acpi" but no luckTried copying from the terminal. It did copy but after the first or second file it became as slow as molases.Tried to copy from my virtualized Windows 7 (64 bit). Copying did not stop but the speed slowed down to an unbearable 2.5 MB/secBooted the Mint 12 Live CD but that showed the same problemsBooted Ubuntu 11.10 Live CD but that did not even booted properlyTried to fill the drive from a network share with FileZilla. It stopped (or became extremely slow) after a file or two.

Well, I have tried a Live CD from OpenSuse 12.1 (KDE). And lo and behold!! Copying just worked. OK, it was not at blazing speed (avg 10 MiB/sec) but still.....it did what it had to do. So no BIOS setting or hardware defect is causing this.

And on a side note, Dolphin looked great compared to Nautilus. Hmmmm, choices, choices..

Found this is a long running bug in Ubuntu. Philinux (from that "other" forum) pointed me to launchpad where I added myself as being affected by this bug. Please visit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/500069 , register if needed and add yourself to the list. The more the marier

It still takes about 1.5 to 2 minutes to start the copy of a file after the previous one has been comleted. Although it does look better (copying continues) it still takes ages to complete the command.